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Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by dinkumthinkum »

motorest wrote: post #682
cryptoegorophy wrote: post #658

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3. Didn’t go well? I don’t remember twitter (x) crashing for days or data erased. Means that organizations don’t need that many people. One thing I learned from this is to not trust so called “experts” or loud voices.

> 3. Didn’t go well? I don’t remember twitter (x) crashing for days or data erased. Means that organizations don’t need that many people. I don't think you have a solid grasp on the problem. To start off, Twitter did experienced major outages that it never experienced before. Also, you hire and retain people when you need to implement changes. If your goal is to cease any form of investment in your platform, like rol…

It never experienced before? Were you aware of the Twitter "fail whale"? I think it is very hard to say that it has been a complete technical failure as many anticipated. I think if Musk had the "correct opinions" as you see them then many people would probably not have been making these proclamations.

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Post by irusensei »

davidw wrote: post #638
makeitdouble wrote: post #501

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Most people were betting on X going under in some way or another within a year. From that POV, it's survival in itself can be seen a success for Musk. I'm genuinely surprised at the amount of people that stuck to it.

> I'm genuinely surprised at the amount of people that stuck to it. I thought more people would see a guy doing ... that salute, or things like the antisemitism in Grok in the past few days and say "no", but a huge number of people seem to be able to rationalize things away. I'm with Wil Wheaton https://bsky.app/profile/wilwheaton.net/post/3ltkjyzjb4k2p

> I thought more people would see a guy doing ... that salute

I don't think that gesture was a nazi salute and was grossly taken out of context by everyone who hates the guy. I don't like Elon Musk either but stressing over something like that exacerbates the appearance that the accuser has a biased opinion. It also made the media who covered this for weeks desperate and very shallow.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by gammarator »

wonderwonder wrote: post #827
mapt wrote: post #791

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Unfortunately, Bluesky has not taken off. The network effects of Twitter are too great to lose its journalists & public figures. What has happened instead is that we're back on Facebook. Errm... Threads by Instagram by Meta née Facebook. And it's reached a stage where public figure migration is actually becoming feasible. https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/threads-is-nearing-xs-dail... Network effected spaces front-lo…

BlueSky has not taken off because its the far left version of Twitter. If you stray even to the center you are doxxed and banned. They banned the sitting vice-president within a couple of hours of him joining.

JD Vance is not banned, he’s just widely blocked, which is something BlueSky users are free to do.

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Post by MisterTea »

Dwolb wrote: post #862
Aurornis wrote: post #847

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I’m kind of fascinated by Nikita’s popularity. Normally if you told a tech community like Hacker News that someone marketed viral phone apps targeting teenagers, engineered app engagement mechanics targeting kids, and openly used every growth hacking trick in the book to manipulate App Store charts, it would seem like a checklist of things people get angry about here. Yet because he’s Twitter-famous and seems like a…

His work may be unsavory, but he's good at his craft. Frank Abagnale committed financial crimes and had a wildly popular movie made from his story.

Jeffery Dahmer has books, TV shows and films too. Your point?

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Post by defraudbah »

Aurornis wrote: post #850
defraudbah wrote: post #712

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I am more fascinated by grok rebellion than Nikita being hired. I still get a ton of bots daily, until that solved they can hire whomever they want. Grok and payounts have been the most fun things happened to twitter since acquisition

> Grok and payounts have been the most fun things happened to twitter since acquisition I have the opposite opinion. Payouts have supercharged the amount of ragebait and engagement bait getting posted. There has always been a drive to post viral content, but attaching a payout to it has made many accounts go all in on being as inflammatory as they can while posting non stop. Even people who shouldn’t need the money s…

> It’s also tiresome to see people asking Grok under every post

ha-ha, this is true, but I also find it hilarious

and I don't mind people with tons of followers monetizing it. If I see a person bait-posting - I can unsubscribe any time.

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Post by dinkumthinkum »

energy123 wrote: post #664
acjohnson55 wrote: post #542

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I give a lot more weight to the $250M Elon spent on the campaign.

Advertising works well on local races. But for POTUS, I don't believe it moves the needle much. The bigger factors are whether the large media players back you (Murdoch, Musk), whether social media personalities back you, and whether the foreign intelligence agencies back you in their spamouflage and information ops (e.g. via the Internet Research Agency).

You don't think the left had all these things in their favor? You think the media are all far right wing conservatives? People like Rachel Maddow and Oprah, you might consider to be much more right wing than even Dick Cheney? You don't think maybe there might be some issues out there that people voted on and maybe saying "I'm a middle class kld" and "I'm speaking" on a loop just didn't do it for them? No, it must be Murdoch, because Soros is a relative pauper by comparison. Really?

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Post by defraudbah »

defraudbah wrote: post #712
hakanderyal wrote: post #406

Interesting nobody has mentioned Nikita. X has hired Nikita Bier, of Gas and tbh fame ( https://x.com/nikitabier ), as head of product some days ago. He posted a meme earlier today which may or may not be related to this.

I am more fascinated by grok rebellion than Nikita being hired. I still get a ton of bots daily, until that solved they can hire whomever they want. Grok and payounts have been the most fun things happened to twitter since acquisition

HN has become a new reddit :D

I have no idea why people are so negative here

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Post by PaulHoule »

emodendroket wrote: post #857
Aurornis wrote: post #847

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I’m kind of fascinated by Nikita’s popularity. Normally if you told a tech community like Hacker News that someone marketed viral phone apps targeting teenagers, engineered app engagement mechanics targeting kids, and openly used every growth hacking trick in the book to manipulate App Store charts, it would seem like a checklist of things people get angry about here. Yet because he’s Twitter-famous and seems like a…

For everyone getting angry about those things there are three people who’ve personally had a hand in them, I imagine.

Done plenty of "growth hacking" myself, I recognize that any successful social site did something spammy at one point, but I never targeted kids.

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Post by mucha »

CydeWeys wrote: post #869
nikolayasdf123 wrote: post #816

ads.x.com is the worst platform to run ads. not surprised

I curate a relatively tame Twitter feed, but X has been showing me animated advertisements of some fleshlight-like device going to town on a dildo. W. T. A. F. It's started making me worried that I can't even use the app in a place where anyone else is, lest someone shoulder surf that and wonder WTF I'm looking at.

That's actually an ad for X Premium+. No embarrassing ads!
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